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Da da da da.....da da da da da da ooooooaaahhhhh.....you can tell the one on the right was an original wigan goer as his trousers have been pulled up so he can wade thru the piss in the bogs. Pikeys dog has summed it up. Keep it in the bedroom and the front room when ya mams out.Never been to Japan but it is worrying that theres a nation of Keb clones out there.

And the early popcorn years in Japan

What was i hearing earlier on.......but he did it with integrity not even Mr Shorofski could defend this.Remember my name.......fame i'm gonna live forever.How does this compare with Sharons dvd.

This topic is about northern soul dance schools????

Just dug out my Keb Darge acetate original.....still in good condition although I was chasing Kumano for years at Cleethorpes pier after I was told the tune here was the Keb Darge original Anybody got the an shirt issue?

Look lets put this to bed.....Sharon is just a tacky CD reissue.Trickster is a second issue of Keb Darge which has been licensed officially by Keb ....heres the truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dIISugkH0o Now Paul Sadot warned me about boots from Japan. They are hard to differentiate from the Keb original. The Keb original has a Hawaii shirt designs and jean turnups as does the Trickster second issue. These boots from Japan havent even got the hawaiian shirt logo or jean turnups. And finally a limited run of a Japanese one off press with Hawaiian shirt design.....very rare Anybody got the Hawaiian shirt issue?

Theres a woman called Sharon who could probably show them a few moves.I'm waiting for the Martin Scorcese epic....the road to Wigan Casino or its alternate title The Road to Station Road.Surely it must have the same storyline as Sold Out.I think there could be a good story in a northern based film but I'm sure it will be cappucinoed up no signs of bootboys with cross earings,jacking amphet up,chemist burglaries,Soussan and the bootleggers,crate digging,hitchiking,nicking cars to get there,music splits jazz funk. will Frank from Shameless play Curtis....He's a baybeeee play Levine,the fashions (they will bugger this up. The last effort i saw were kids dancing in bowling shoes and far too much Fred Perry) .Getting rolled, fights with punks/grebos,people dying!!!!.Working in a shit job.... Come on In your northern soul film who would you get to play who. Curtis-Frank from Shameless....

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Wasn't the 1940s look a brief fad at the goldmine in Canvey Island in the mid-late seventies as was the american GI look. I'm sure it was very Roxy Music influenced and it was contemporary at the time but it didn't look tacky either.I'm sure there was a similar thing going on at Blackpool Mecca and correct me if I'm wrong but they werent in to baggies/vests. The guy in Rushtons book at the Mecca in the beertowel baggies looks well out of place(Francis Tee photo).The term northern soul means different things to different people.It has split so may ways now and theres so many genres it has almost lost it's meaning. Theres revival mods who were brought up on a diet of stafford and 100 club sounds Rockabillies who are into the very early almost doowop sounds Wiganites into oldies and stompers Progressives into cutting edge newies and b sides (some great and some stuff not so great) New kids who have seen the Duffy video and want to find out what its about Seventies and modern fans.Although Modern is a confusing term!!! Ex Mecca/Ritz and people from a Southport Soul Weekender history The fashions Mods in Ben Shermans,sideburns, smart trousers and a John Smedley crew neck Rockabillies in turn up jeans and chain from the jean pocket Wiganites.Moustache jeans and dress shirt Progressives. Slick back hair (geek glasses). The 1950s american scientist look New kids, skinny jeans, beard,pork pie hat (puzzled look on their faces) Seventies and modern fans (still got a hint of the wedge there and would love to have highlights again) Im sure if Northern Soul were transplanted back to the seventies people would be wearing what kids wear today.When did it stop going forward in music and clothes.I suspect the last big thing was Drizabone Pressure and the Angie Stone track.It seems to be going backwards not forwards.There is hope when the Kings Go Forth Track is played which is not a money grabbing cash in and a record made with some integrity.One eye to the past and one eye to the future.Re progressives.Theres a lot of these collectors/deejays who don't actually dance so cannot listen with a dancers ear which results in a lot of substandard stuff getting past the quality control although there is a lot of great stuff....was at Solid Hit Soul the other night and some great stuff was played (The Limitations was a blinder).My own choice is well produced late sixties with a strong dance beat dare i say it traditional northern soul and because I like a good production I have no problem with uptempo seventies either.I like a slow record at the end as well not in the middle of a set....It is funny in hindsight how Wigan gave up the chase for stompers because they thought that it had all been mined....threres a thread post Wigan stompers....

Brighton 79 This was a rally organised by Scunthorpe Road Rats.Remember they had been doing scooters and rallies all over the north for a few years before this and there was quite a big northern scooter scene..This story is about on the way home.Entering Bishops Stortford.....the noise of our scooters immediately brought a crowd of plastic mods out. They were dressed like the jam clones wed seen at Brighton. Their fishtail parkas had all the obligatory targets and Who emblems...plastic...they were almost melting in the sun.They then got a load of questions from them and he describes what they were wearing, khaki overalls, us parkas,40 inch patchwork jeans and soul club badges, docs, brogues and tank tops.The plastics started mouthing off about the width of one of their riders trousers (remember northern soul and the casino was still open in 79) and it just basically goes on about a confrontation from there. This is from Time Trouble And Money by Mark Brough and his account of the Pre Mod Revival Scooter Scene 1973 up until 82 when he packed it in.In essence the north kept a lot of the mod ethos ie the scooters and discovering soul music and the south and in particular certain journalists/NME/Sounds and in particular Gary Bushell etc thought that they were reviving it in 79 when in actual fact it never went away.The north had just moved with the times.It is funny that this aspect of Mod never gets mentioned and all we ever hear about is Weller in 77.I suppose it doesn't suit a lot of peoples agenda that things were happening outside London pre 79. Were you there?. Maybe Sharon can start Northern Mod/Soul re enactments ? The famous Levine Must Go Banner scene from the Mecca,The Chris Hill Conga scene and the snapping of "that funk record" .The kid that spun himself to death(Dewhirst story.....but I still don't believe it),Soussans deejaying spot.....but of course the instrumental,famous chemist burglaries,Richard Searling leaving the Lp on top of the car and reversing into his dj box,the night when Dave Evison stuck Move On Up on and created "oldies".....maybe there's a film in this?.Oh yeah SOLD OUT!!

It is quite baffling what she will teach though.....correct me if Im wrong but didn't the wheel crowd get their backdrop moves from Major Lance.Will she be teaching this in a space of about a foot for authenticity. Can we then learn the later wheel moves( the later gay disco years) ?Will 4 button brown suit jackets be provided? Wigan stomping...Will she be providing selatios with numbers on like in a bowling alley or 8 hole dm's? Guest appearences from Jethro and Sandy Holt in a one to one q and a session Mecca Shuffle.....this is one of the hardest moves to learn.Will she be playing Time (Edwin Starr) over and over again until we have mastered it.Do we have to be wearing a tie in this lesson?? Stafford....a bit of a breather after the Mecca shuffle. Tight jeans and white socks with a mullet or post mod revival sta prest and bowling shoes.Correct angst facial expressions to Doug Banks Cleethorpes Pier-Spinning on the spot and into into splits(surely pegs and ballet shoes will be provided) The tourist-Make sure you have a full glass pint.Ask dj for any motown or the fat boy slim tune. Make sure you see floor moves being done.Walk over and drop your glass making sure when he drops again it will be an ambulance to a and e. finally talc.....remember its got to be Johnsons (cos thats what the picture is on the cd).Remember you don't really need it but its the law....put loads of it down so the floor workers come up like they have just sucked up the dust from cherobyl. The correct use of a beer towel.These have been provided with our sponsor on.Rare beer towels are hard to get what with the breweries shutting down and most pubs turning to food and gastro grub.Theres a northern nite on Wednesday at our local gastro pubwhen we play some really cool cd's though.Sorry no dancing but theres a good selection of food on large white plates Finally a talk about how British working class culture has been thrown into the mincing machine to be churned out in coffee book form for the chattering middle classes... Only £300 for the first lesson..

Alright Paul......met you a few times at the Ritz (early 9ts I think) when I came up with Oscar from London(we were well into Dingwalls early sessions and dancing to Bobby Montez-Jungle Fantastique at the time) .I have never posted before but this thread is hilarious.Seen some posts from James Trouble as well (I thought he was a deep funk deejay!!).It is the same with a lot of scenes though.The jazz scene was a prime example when acrid Jazz took over and clubs filled up with goateed head nodders and it got commercialised and watered down.It seems to me the northern scene is being pulled in a load of different directions.Theres the rockabillies attracted to the earthy 50s/early 60s r&b sounds,the oldies fans who want to hear played out oldies,tourists who want to spill beer and listen to cat food commercial and tamla,giffer soul fans who want midtempo all night, rarities boys who only want rare sides and seventies fans..........and you have got to please all of them.If you think the northern scene is tacky you want to get yourself to the Isle Of Wight Scooter Rally...full of Small Faces Underpants Weller Who Karaoke mod bands.Would you like your chicken in the basket sir.and ...more union jacks than the Queens silver jubilee in 77 could muster.I think the word we are looking for is integrity.Mark Brough did a book called Time Trouble and Money about the 7ts scooter scene pre mod revival and theres one bit about meeting a load of revival mods from Bishops Stortford later on and he used a word that has dropped out of use.....plastic....

Am I not missing something but isn't Trickster the reissue........I thought the original was Keb Darge but beware of a flood of boots coming from the far east.

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Seen a few black/silver Bits n pieces for £20-30 but they are boots.Don't know when they were booted though. Was it big back in the 7ts?The multicoloured label is the original which is what Im after.Willing to pay £80-£90 for a copy.

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